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1. What are the conditions required to assure that multistakeholder participation in building the Information Society becomes a reality in Latin America and the Caribbean? 2. What elements should be focusing the efforts of governments, and civil society? 3. What sources of financing to ensure access and production of technological goods and services should be encouraged? 4. What proposals could be made on these topics in order to contribute to the process of building the Information Society that will follow the WSIS? Financing mechanisms for the Information Society Societies in Southern countries have implemented actions to fulfill their connectivity needs through initiatives of the different actors (private sector, civil society organizations, articulations among the different sectors), as one of their first steps towards building the IS. At the present time, there are other key areas concentrating the efforts of national governments and Civil Society, including the implementation of telecommunication infrastructure networks and the promotion of the Knowledge Economy[1]. This involves the need to implement country and macro-region projects whose general guidelines include the definition of the intention of becoming either consumers or producers of technological goods and services, spotting market niches for their products and opening export markets. The ways in which governments, companies and the organized civil society negotiate the financing sources for building the IS will contribute to define these intentions which, in turn, will determine the medium and long-term future of their societies. As it is shown below, these mechanisms encompass several forms: [1] The New Economy is understood as the dynamic system of interactions between the citizens of a country, enterprises and government, which capitalize technology with the object of obtaining a social benefit or financial profit.

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